Instagram fool damages 6,000-year-old cave art for likes, faces wrath of Spanish authorities

Also, I would add this is not the worst case, just the most blatant because the IDGIT was posting the photos. At the beginning of the year some GRADE A I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU CAN LIVE WITH YOURSELVES MORONS spraypainted a spanish flag over prehistoric paintings in Ciudad real (basically a couple hundred kilometers from this place)

I’ve recently discovered a youtube channel called Desert Drifter that - if I understood correctly - explores pueblan ruins in mesa canyons.

The guys who spraypainted this wall did the equivalent of going to one of these mesas, and painting a 10 meter wide US flag over pueblan paintings, just because.

ETA: (I confused above for over)

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